Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-09
SCHOOL AGAIN MONDAY.

PrfneipaIs and Teachers Blocking
 H0me-The Boys and Girls Long
 Play Spell About Over-The Needed
 New Big School Building In the
 Warrington DIstrict-A Million Dol.
 lars i'm school ProPerty-The High
 school Enlargement Problem.
 School begins on Monday. The small boy
 does not yet fully comprehend that he must
 go to school then. He has been having too
 much fun to think for moment that he has
 got to break of next Monday morning from
 a good share of the enjoyment he has been
 having and settle once again down to actual
 study, which to him is the hardest kind of
 work that he can imagine. How he longs
 that there could be no such things as school
 and study; and how he looks forward to the
 time when his school days shall be over. And the girls, some, at least, coincide with
 the boys view of school life.
 During the summer vacation the school
 buildings in the districts have all been care- fully attended to. MT. Maier Zunder has made 8 close inspection of the buildings since the improvements were made and he pronounces them all to be neat and clean The committee who had the improvements in hand looked first to the sanitary condition of all the buildings. MT. Zunder says he does not think now that any fault can be found in that direction.
 The Washington school is the only one that is not what it should be. Two of the rooms are in the basement and they are, in fact, unfit to be occupied by the scholars. In this district new building is really need . ed, and the probability is that the citizens of that district will be called on shortly to vote ! on the advisability of having new one erected.
 TLo.o Lo,,a I,oo, ,,o ovtaroivo iro,,rova- | ments made on any of the buildings. The most expensive job was the sewer connection of the Woolsey school. This was done in accordance with orders from the board of health.
 At the shelton avenue school the vaults, | which the board of health had complained of, were thoroughly cleaned. A new stair case was built here.
 Two new furnaces have been put in the Eaton school. School traps have been placed | in the sinks and also ventilators for the pipes.
 At the Woolsey school new front steps have been built. The Orchard street school
 has been rspainted. In fact, at all the schools some little repairing was done. In some I cases the roofs have been shingled. At each of the buildings the sanitary condition was | thoroughly attended to.
 The committee endeavored to expend as | little money as possible, yet make all needed ! Top6lrS. IL ls LHOuSuG GQaG tue ! were never in better condition than now. | The worth of the school buildings in the New | Haven district is in the neighborhood of $1 ,000, ,000. The expenditures for repairs have been $4, 900, which is rather small as | compared with the amount that has general | ly been expended.
 l The High school will probably be crowded | at the opening of school, and what will be \ done with all the scholars is mystery. The l school was crowded last year, but it is going | to be more crowded. That the High school building will eventually-have te be enlarged | is conceded. It Is expected that there will \ be an unusually large attendance at most of l the different schools, but it is thought that the accommodations will be fully adequate, | at least, for the present.
 The school hours at the High school have been changed. School will commence at l nine o'clock instead of at 8:30, and will be | continued until 1:30, with an intermission at | noon of twenty minutes. This change has | been made more for an experiment than fol l anything else. Much fault has been occas ! stoned by this change. There certainly can
 not be two sessions daily; it is out of the question. Take, for instance, scholar liv. ' ing in the Annex, another away out by the Tin bridge; how are they going to get home | to dinner and back in time for the second | timea That has been tried and it proved 6 | failure. Whether the present change will be | favorably received or not remains to be seen. At the time it was made MT. Zunder vigor- l ously opposed it.
 The supplies for the different schools have ] all been furnished and distributed. Prof. Dutton has not arrived home yet, from Europe, but is expected on the steamer City of Chicago, which is due in New York to-day.
 The annual election of the board takes places week from next Monday, when new members of the board will be elected. One will be elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of MT. Harrison, and the other two in place of Messrs. Plunkett and Graves, as their terms of office expires at that time.